One of the biggest problems with our ridiculous health care system in the US? Besides the fact we spend much more than any other country for the same results, besides the millions of uninsured, besides how much of that gets siphoned off as profits straight to CEO pockets ( Read more... )

Those stupid online personality tests on employment pages feel like the "Which DBZ character are you?!?!?!?!" quizzes. And they're probably less accurate, since everybody knows the "right" answers are the "bootlicking choirboy" answers. Employers aren't looking for initiative, creativity, or anything else, they're looking for obedient warm bodies ( Read more... )

Two sets of "they" I'm referring to ( Read more... )

The entire Republican party, both in Congress and the Executive Branch, continues to endorse, support, and order torture. Every time anything has come up about torture, the Republican party has been unanimous in support, all of the opposition has come from the Democratic party. All of the Republican presidential candidates are enthusiastic in ( Read more... )

Social Security is fine. It has plenty of money. republicans want to get rid of it because they hate it, and have hated it from the time it was introduced. And hate it because it's doing just fine.

Last month at work, we started putting up a display of Christmas bargain books. In September. SEPTEMBER. Now there's not only that, but also a table of Christmas cards, and a table of random holiday books. In the first week of October ( Read more... )

The other day I read the prequel comic for the Transformers movie. It was not so impressive, on several levels, since it didn't cover or explain much of the stuff you'd expect from a prequel. Nothing in it added anything that I'm sure won't be covered by the movie ( Read more... )